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Basically I'm curious to know everyone's thoughts on Hell. I don't personally believe in it. To me it's pointless to punish people infinitely. Punishment is meant to change behaviour. But indefinite punishment doesn't serve a purpose because the behaviour change never has a chance to take place.

Funny Side note: Ever read The thermodynamics of Hell?

Queen of Swords

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555

Being agnostic, my ideas about the afterlife, or indeed whether there is such a thing, are pretty fuzzy. But I'd have to say there isn't any such thing as hell, because I've studied ethics, and 'right and wrong' are rarely, if ever, black and white. Even if there is some sort of superior conscience sorting parting souls into 'good' and 'bad' piles, we couldn't possibly be expected to predict which pile we could end up in... definitions of right and wrong vary wildly based on conscience, upbringing, culture, time period, etcetera. It would be completely arbitrary if a superior conscience, benevolent or not, were to sort us expecting that we would feel rewarded or punished based on our categorization, because especially if it's an omniscient superior conscience, how could we, simple mortals, ever possibly be expected to have as elevated a concept and knowledge of good and bad? For all we know it's ultimately sinful to eat vegetables. It would be completely useless.

Unbeatable

My thoughts on hell are basically that it's an absurd concept and that the idea's existence and continued propagation reflect poorly upon both its initial inventors and humanity as a species.

Lowly Idiot

Never a truer word.

It's clearly bollocks.